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Fight night

They come together in Oakland to beat each other senseless — for fun.
By A.C. Thompson

 

 

In This Issue

We Remember Hunter

A bang, not a whimper
Hunter S. Thompson and the American Dream
By Tim Redmond

Hunter Thompson has cashed his check
A very, very funny interview with Thompson from Rolling Stone’s old College Papers

A Thompson reader
Random and fun selections from his life and work, with some great links

Thompson the reporter
David Carr of the New York Times agrees that HST was a remarkable political reporter

Even in London …
The Guardian of London has a full set of appreciations

Out of the closet
Low-wage immigrants — like a large group now being evicted from a Dolores Street duplex — often must choose between homelessness and illegal, unsafe housing
By Rachel Brahinsky

Terrorist TV?
S.F. broadcaster forced to drop Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV network after State Department labels it "terrorist"
By Camille T. Taiara

Bay Guardian suit moves forward

Neighborhood Business: Evolution on 14th Street
If you want to create the perfect neighborhood, do it yourself.

Neighborhood Business: Biztips
Openings, closings, and other life changes on the small-business scene.

Editorial: Why S.F. needs to save LAFCO
It's time to rev up the public power movement

Editorial: The vanishing homeless

Editorial: Censoring Arab TV

Opinion: Counted out
By Chance Martin

Dine review
Bohemian rhapsody
Cheap eats
The down low

The Food Snoop,

The Blender

Life During Wartime
The Bay Guardian's regularly updated section dedicated to war-related news and perspectives from the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world, protest and event information, and web links.

Journalists under fire
Digests from the frontlines of the free press around the globe

Freedom of information
Stories and links to information having to do with sunshine and open government

 

Film: Oscars, the grouches
A curmudgeon's guide to the Academy Award nominees.

Film: When Wong met Doyle
A new rerelease spotlights the Hong Kong filmmaking team's earliest effort, Days of Being Wild.

Film: In the realms of the real
French documentarian Nicolas Philibert, the subject of a PFA retrospective, captures life as it is.

Film: Critic's Choice -‘Imaginary Heroes’
Ordinary people

Music: Bewitchin' lineman
Who is Jimmy Webb? And who left the cake out in the rain?

Music: Move to the ‘Right’
Can Jennifer Lopez go from excess back to success?

Theater: Immigrant song
Campo Santo climbs Jessica Hagedorn's mostly satisfying Stairway to Heaven.

Stage: Critic's Choice - Trisha Brown Dance Company

Art: Critic's Choice - 'Otherkin'

See Hear - music DVD reviews

Script Doctor - film news

Local Live - show reviews

Grooves - record reviews

Local Grooves - record reviews

2nd Time Around - record reviews

The Mix

This month in Lit

Lit: Escape from the present
In the world of Ascher/Straus, film, TV, dreams, and brief conversations form a hyperreal landscape

Lit: Househunter
Blazing saddles

Lit: Marginalia
The Immigrants

Lit: Book Reviews
A pair of novelists put the fun back in cultural fanaticism

Lit: Short Reviews
Chronicles: Volume One, The Front Lines of Social Change, Cruising the Anime City

Lit: Fiction Contest Winners
First Place
Adeline, no

Second Place
Differences

Third Place
Asparagus

Honorable Mention
Passive transformation

Honorable Mention
Veer

 


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